Ms Jane Turner

With an emphasis on community growth and engagement, Jane Turner has aided the local games industry as part of IGDA since 2004.

Jane is a curriculum advisor for tertiary game design courses nationally in Australia.

GameOn

GameOn is a series of talks and workshop opportunities that Jane worked closely with the QUT Creative Industries Precincts to establish.

Local industry members come and talk about their work with the general public. 

Jane and the GameOn programs team are also responsible for the:

• 48 hour game making challenge (currently in its third year)
• studio-GameOn opportunity as part of the 2008 international GAME ON exhibition – commissioned by the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation and the Faculty of Information Technology held at the State Library of Queensland. 

Research

Jane’s research and practice explores game design, and the game engines that underly production, as cultural objects.

Projects

Jane was involved in the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) Indigenous game world project Digital Songlines.

She has been exploring cultural geographies of the imagination via use of high-end game engines in projects such as:

• tabernacle project
• graffiti engine – nQuumbar project (participatory design using game worlds)

In the following projects, Jane explores the autocracy of software and potential participatory options to exploit the spatial metaphors of game worlds to re-connect digital story telling to place.

• Strolls project
• little grey cat engine